Top 500 Aristotle Quotes (2023 Update)
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151. “Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power to do this, it is clear that the young must be directed to music and must be educated in it.”

— Aristotle

152. “He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”

— Aristotle

153. “Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.”

— Aristotle

154. “Friends hold a mirror up to each other; through that mirror they can see each other in ways that would not otherwise be accessible to them, and it is this mirroring that helps them improve themselves as persons.”

— Aristotle

155. “Soul and body, I suggest react sympathetically upon each other. A change in the state of the soul produces a change in the shape of the body and conversely, a change in the shape of the body produces a change in the state of the soul.”

— Aristotle

156. “No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of outrage at unjustice to himself.”

— Aristotle

157. “He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them.”

— Aristotle

158. “Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.”

— Aristotle

159. “The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.”

— Aristotle

160. “The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them.”

— Aristotle

161. “Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind.”

— Aristotle

162. “We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.”

— Aristotle

163. “The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.”

— Aristotle

164. “Life is only meaningful when we are striving for a goal .”

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165. “Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved.”

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166. “The law is reason unaffected by desire.”

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167. “God has many names, though He is only one Being.”

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168. “Equity is that idea of justice which contravenes the written law.”

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169. “The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.”

— Aristotle

170. “When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.”

— Aristotle

171. “When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.”

— Aristotle

172. “All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.”

— Aristotle

173. “Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.”

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174. “Hippodamus, son of Euryphon, a native of Miletus, invented the art of planning and laid out the street plan of Piraeus.”

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175. “Character is determined by choice, not opinion.”

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176. “It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.”

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177. “The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.”

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178. “The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or many, that is an oligarchy, and where the poor rule, that is a democracy.”

— Aristotle

179. “Change in all things is sweet.”

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180. “Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.”

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181. “The ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others.”

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182. “Peace is more difficult than war.”

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183. “He is courageous who endures and fears the right thing, for the right motive, in the right way and at the right times.”

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184. “Have a definite, clear, practical ideal – a goal, an objective.”

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185. “Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature’s unrealized ends.”

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186. “Nothing is what rocks dream about.”

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187. “For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in it is universal.”

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188. “We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.”

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189. “A change in the shape of the body creates a change in the state of the soul.”

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190. “Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich; it is only an accident that the free are the many and the rich are the few.”

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191. “The end of labor is to gain leisure.”

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192. “Before you heal the body you must first heal the mind.”

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193. “In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.”

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194. “Quitting smoking is rather a marathon than a sprint. It is not a one-time attempt, but a longer effort.”

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195. “A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies.”

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196. “The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.”

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197. “Worms are the intestines of the earth.”

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198. “Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love.”

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199. “All men seek one goal: success or happiness.”

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200. “Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.”

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